4.3bsd uucico log entry question

[Jim Webb]

> Our uucp log for the system chinet (from whom we get news) shows
> the following entry:
> 
> UUCP chinet (11/5-17:50-5930) SUCCEEDED (call to chinet )
> UUCP chinet (11/5-17:52-5930) FAILED (imsg 1)
> **NSC** chinet (11/5-18:08-5944) FAILED (LOGIN)
> **NSC** chinet (11/5-18:08-5944) FAILED (call to chinet )

>                          I tried looking for NSC in the sources for
> uucp but couldn't find it (via egrep NSC /usr/src/usr.bin/uucp/*.[ch]

**NSC** is the login of the process (5944) that failed in calling chinet,
so it is no wonder it did not show up in an egrep ;-).  The imsg() routine
is used before any protocol (read g) is used, so I would imagine that
either your uucico is messed up, or, more likely, you are having line
noise/flow control problems that are messing up its reading of the protocol
message.
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